This exceptional 1989 Vintage is inspired by the oldest bottle housed at The GlenDronach Distillery – a twenty-nine-year-old whisky bottled in 1913, just before the outbreak of the first World War.

To conclude the original article, I wrote “ Let’s just hope that in a couple of years, when they can finally release whiskies with accurate age statements, they are able to produce the same top quality as they do now. Thanks to the fifth Duke of Gordon, distillation throughout the highlands was legalized in the early 19th century.

Even so much so that they had to discontinue the GlenDronach 15-years-old Revival in 2015, less than 18 months after the original publication date of this article. The Service and your account are for your personal use only and may not be shared with any third parties. Than again, I've never had any bad encounters with sulphur before that were too dominant and ruined the whisky. Tremendous 27 year old single malt Scotch whisky from the GlenDronach Distillery and its 19th batch of single cask bottlings. I have been saving this bottle for a special occation, and yesterday i just finished one of my last exams.

So even if the whisky will reach its “real” bottling age after the reopening – for example the 15 year old in 2017 – it will not be a purely sherry cask matured! Palate: Golden syrup, soft, juicy raisins, tangy oak notes, peach, cherry blossom, cocoa and honeydew melon. Like… of course it’s good, but I can’t ever say in good conscience that anything that expensive is worth the outrageous sums asked. The finish is long, sweet with dried fruit notes, dried orange peel, bittersweet chocolate and a lingering ginger pepperiness. This is a very good dram, thick, powerful nose and palate, one sherry lovers and sherry heads will surely appreciate.Wonderfully sherried whiskies that pack a punch without being too overly sherried, if you know what I mean. So what if I were to tell you that the chill-filtering process I’m talking about could potentially be a little ‘grey’? Firstly because numbers don’t lie, and secondly because it was confirmed to Bert Rutkowski during a visit to the distillery in the summer of 2013.

The 21 Year Old Parliament has a portion of PX Cask matured malt and is sweeter, perhaps more intense as a result. There are expressions out there that don’t meet these presentation standards but still deliver a great experience when tasting. Like all the GlenDronach expressions the whisky has an oily, viscous character with a pronounced palate weight.

Pallet: muscular and dense, coffee Christmas cake, crystallised ginger rum again with ham, pepper coffee some wood and gentle herbal influence. d) the right to license, use, sell, archive, reproduce, distribute, modify, perform, publish, create derivative works from, offer for sale, or use of the Service. If you're constantly refreshing pages or using software to monitor our site for new releases this may have triggered the block. From YouTube videos to blog articles, the whisky fabric was up in arms at the thought of this great liquid being forcefully filtered through a large piece of machinery to remove essential fats and long-chain esters, ostensibly to improve the aesthetic of the liquid when exposed to either cold temperatures or a few drops of water.

A number of people have already noted this is an absolute sherry bomb, and now having had a few more whiskeys in the past two years I see what they mean. Glendronach has, in recent years, been increasingly recognised for the exceptional quality and value of its single malts. GlenDronach’s 21 year-old bottling from the official distillery lineup is aged in a combination of PX (Pedro Ximenez) and oloroso sherry casks.Glendronach is a smaller distillery owned by a smaller player in the field, so they'll have a hard time obtaining any premium sherry casks. This means there is an additional level of quality control incorporated in the process– a bit more due diligence to ensure the liquid remains as it should.